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Thank you. That's perfect. I'll start looking at steering rods. Cheers

Hello. Not sure if anyone can help, or if I'm just being stupid. I'm not auto expert and have just fitted an OME 2" lift to my Disco 1 in my back garden. I have also fitted MOD 16" wheels and 265/75/16 BFG AT's. All seems ok, except, when I drive it in a straight line, the steering wheel is now sitting at about 20 degrees left. If I take my hands off the wheel, the car drives in a straight line, but the wheel is at an angle (so it feels a bit strange). Any ideas what could have caused this? The only idea I have in my head at the moment is possible dropping something too low and the steering coming out of a spline and back in at a different angle. Or maybe i just take the steering wheel off and put it back on again straight. Any words of wisdom would be much appreciated. Cheers David

Blimey, never thought of that. It could be why they got a bit better when I came down again. At the top the packet of pringles almost exploded with decompression when I opened it. The brakes aren't feeling to good normally, so I think I will go with bleeding the system and rebuilding the from calipers just incase. Thanks everyone for your advice. David

Thanks,, think I'll start from there.

Yes it has ABS.. although the brakes are not working strong enough to lock up the wheels. When I was on gravel earlier that day I thought I felt and heard the ABS kick in (pulsing and nasty grinding noise). But at the moment the brakes aren't strong enough (and there is no pulsing under normal braking) Thanks for the suggestions.

Sorry, forgot to mention. The reservoir is full.

Hi, I've had a look around the forum and not found anything similar, so here goes. Discovery 1996 V8 The brakes have felt pretty weak recently,,, i.e push the pedal pretty far down before anything happens, but they did stop rapidly and straight when it did bite. Last Sunday I was up in the Andes Mountains with it (I'm in Chile and haven't learnt Spanish yet!). So after a long slow and twisty drive up a windy road and gravel path mix(3km) I decided to come back down again. All was fine until I stopped to take some photos. I didn't turn off the engine (possibly hot by now) and let it sit there running while I took photos (a couple of minutes), I got back in the car, put my foot on the brake pedal to put in gear, and my foot went right to the floor. I pumped it a bit and got some pressure and decided to continue. What followed was a scary drive down, lots of pumping the brakes and pulling the handbrake. Sometimes there was a little brake pressure, sometimes there was nothing. When I got to the bottom and found some straight road, it felt like the pressure built up again, but not strong enough to lock up. Any ideas please? Cheers David